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Percy
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Message 1 of 13 (461951)
03-28-2008 8:06 PM


I received an email from the University of Texas about an upcoming Ken Miller webcast. The email is included below, with the individual's particulars deleted, but here are the important details:
Topic: God, Darwin, and Design: Lessons from the Dover Monkey Trial
Who: Ken Miller
When: April 4, 2008, 8 PM Eastern Time
Link: | Environmental Science Institute | Jackson School of Geosciences | The University of Texas at Austin
Ken Miller testified at the Dover trial.
Email below.
--Percy

Dear EvC Forum,
On April 4, 2008 at 7:00 pm CT (GMT - April 5, 2008 at 12:00 am), Dr. Kenneth R. Miller, a professor of biology at Brown University will give a talk entitled God, Darwin, and Design: Lessons from the Dover Monkey Trial. Miller was a lead witness in the Pennsylvania "intelligent design" case that began in September 2005, and which has been front-page news since it started.
We would like to invite members of your organization and/or visitors of your website to view our Live Webcast of the lecture, April 4, 2008 at 7:00 pm CT (GMT - April 5, 2008 at 12:00 am). If possible, posting a link to this event on your website or forwarding the information to your members who may be interested in this lecture is greatly appreciated. Our webcasts are very high quality, and viewers can submit questions to the speaker through our website and the speaker answers the online questions in real time. The webcasting software we use requires viewers to download a small plugin, but it is very simple and quick to install.
A link to the details of the lecture and the webcast could be found at:
| Environmental Science Institute | Jackson School of Geosciences | The University of Texas at Austin
Please let me know if you will consider sending this information to your members and/or posting this information on your website. Thank you!
Thanks for your time,
Environmental Science Institute
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station C1100, Austin, TX 78712
Environmental Science Institute | Jackson School of Geosciences | The University of Texas at Austin
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What is the lecture about?
It has been 80 years since the Scopes Monkey Trial, but the debate between science and religion has never been as heated as it is now. Recent efforts to introduce "intelligent design" into science classes will likely lead to a major Supreme Court ruling on the issue. Kenneth R. Miller, a professor of biology at Brown University, is a preeminent evolutionary scientist”and the author of the most widely used high school biology textbook in America. He is perfectly suited to address this controversial topic on many fronts.

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Percy
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Message 4 of 13 (462541)
04-04-2008 7:52 PM
Reply to: Message 2 by Modulous
04-04-2008 6:58 PM


Re: If you are online....
I'm in, things were going fine, then the video suddenly became jumpy and I lost sound. How's it for you?
--Percy

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Percy
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Message 5 of 13 (462542)
04-04-2008 7:54 PM
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04-04-2008 7:52 PM


Re: It is now possible to watch
I'm in chat...
--Percy

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Percy
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Message 11 of 13 (462573)
04-05-2008 7:34 AM


Archived Webcast Available
It can be found here:
If you're using WMP, do not hit the WMP pause (use the pause in the video frame portion of the WMP window instead). It will not restart, you get to watch a "Please Wait" message instead. I think the psychology department is running an experiment titled, "How long will they wait?"
Do not skip the songs at the beginning. There's some yodelling that shouldn't be missed. Take that, Switzerland!
--Percy
Edited by Percy, : Add more info.

  
Percy
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Message 12 of 13 (462580)
04-05-2008 10:27 AM


Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow!
I cannot watch video for long in front of a computer video screen, I generally last about 10 minutes, but I just finished watching the Ken Miller presentation in one sitting. I was captivated from the first few minutes and except for a bathroom break and a coffee refill watched it continuously from beginning to end. Do not miss this video.
I came away extremely impressed with Miller's intellect and energy. How could just one person know so much and also do so much? It's almost not fair. In fact, it isn't fair! Ah, well, such is life.
In this video Miller presents the key arguments against intelligent design with great clarity, showing how severely it has already failed the key tests of science. Evolutionists will learn the most effective arguments against ID, and intelligent design advocates will learn just how far from genuine science intelligent design actually is.
At one point Miller references an editorial about ID that he really, really liked, so here's a link to it, well worth a read: Phony Theory, False Conflict
Miller said he wrote a couple reviews of Behe's latest book, The Edge of Evolution. One was in Nature, here's a link, but as I don't have an on-line subscription and won't pay the single-item price I haven't read it: Falling over the edge
The other I didn't quite catch the publication name, and I couldn't find it on-line. Maybe someone can run it down.
I did come across a review of Behe's book by Richard Dawkins at his website: Inferior Design: Richard Dawkins reviews Behe's latest book
Miller's new book, Only a Theory, will be coming out in June. You can preorder from Amazon, and it has a website: http://www.onlyatheorythebook.com
Miller will be appearing on the Colbert Report again on June 16th.
--Percy

  
Percy
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Message 13 of 13 (462629)
04-06-2008 9:58 AM


Link to the Miller Presentation Slides
This is the link to the Miller PowerPoint presentation slides:
This link is now working.
--Percy
Edited by Percy, : Link started working, change final comment.

  
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